The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the ...
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The First World War produced an extraordinary flowering of poetic talent, poets whose words commemorate the conflict more personally and as enduringly as monuments in stone. Lines such as 'What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?' and 'They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old' have come to express the feelings of a nation about the horrors and aftermath of war. This new anthology provides a definitive record of the achievements of the Great War poets. As well as offering generous selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, it also incorporates less well-known writing by civilian and women poets. Music hall and trench songs provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. A general introduction charts the history of the war poets' reception and challenges prevailing myths about the war poets' progress from idealism to bitterness. The work of each poet is prefaced with a biographical account that sets the poems in their historical context. Although the War has now passed out of living memory, its haunting of our language and culture has not been exorcised. Its poetry survives because it continues to speak to and about us.
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Fine/Fine Dust Jacket. 9780199581443 SIGNED BY THE EDITOR (TIM KENDALL) ON TITLE PAGE. A Fine Hardcover in dark blue boards with sewn-in book mark; in a Fine Dust jacket. The Second Impression of the First Edition, published in 2013 by Oxford University Press. 312 pages, with extensive Explanatory Notes, plus an Index of Titles and First Lines, a Chronology, and a Bibiliography. POETRY OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR. An Anthology. Edited by Tim Kendall, with his introduction and short essays on the poet's represented. They include selections from the celebrated soldier-poets, including Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Rupert Brooke, and Ivor Gurney, plus many other poems by civilian and women poets, including the well-known like Yeats, Hardy, and Blunden, and the lesser-kown such as Mary Borden and May Sinclair. Also includes a selection of Music hall and trench songs, which provide a further lyrical perspective on the War. SIGNED BY EDITOR / POETRY / WORLD WAR I.
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